Friday, 31 March 2017

Many who work in 'the caring professions'
give their reasons for choice of occupation
as having little to do with money.

Given how poorly such work often pays,
the low status of the work,
and how tiring can be, this is to be expected.

One very popular reason among care workers
is 'to make a real difference in one person's life'.
Whilst the pursuit of individual difference
is common enough how often is it achieved?
What happens when it isn't? Do they go around
supporting a highly indifferent 'normality'?

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

In many places, particularly the internet,
comment seems to be plentiful and free beyond count.
Though the cost must land on somebody.
One cost that is left un-commented on
is that whether people are care more or less
that what they say is logical
and they credit their sources.

When we only live once,
as far as we know,
careless chatter will use up
what we should give higher value.

Monday, 27 March 2017

Parents are the people who say they offer forgiveness
when their children stray far into the unknown.

More often than not what they offer their offspring
is a more defensive version of what they give each other
-forgiveness-kept-at-a-distance which is to be redeemed
in full on that rainy day that never quite arrives.

Saturday, 18 March 2017

Vote against all you want,
or rather don't want, to see elected.
But remember that when others
do the same it might leave us
-and sooner rather than later-
all with nobody and nothing
left worth voting for....

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

very well and not just for how naive I had to be,
for me to accept it without any sign of resistance.
But more for how it was adults controlling us
whilst investing in yesteryear's skills and hierarchies
the better for the adults to kid us we were grown ups
and get the last possible use out of what they knew
would soon be obsolete, whilst leaving the young
unprepared for any real future that would beset them.

Sunday, 12 March 2017

Before the days of a television in every home
films were 'Life with the boring bits removed',
the edited highlights of a made up life write large
for the screen to keep the masses entertained.
How odd then that as we fast forward to the future
via the internet, what we get presented with is still life,
but with all the grit removed from the issues presented,
the more to help us to accept our singular passivity.

Thursday, 9 March 2017

We live in a world where maturing children
are no more meant to understand their sexuality
than the poor are meant to genuinely aspire to wealth,
In both rules reinforce a deference that is impossible
to sustain and difficult to break. Cover ups are inevitable
and they lead in equal measure to long histories
where the present is built on misreading the past
when small tragedies and collective denial ruled the day.

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Some days I feel that I am nothing more
than a bundle of hyperactive nerve ends,
which as they fizz conspire to suggest
they are they sum of me, whilst also implying
that I am more than the sum of their parts-
not that they have a label for what this state might be.

They are too busy fizzing,
or damping themselves down,
to be bothered with matters
of clear definition.....